APWH CHPT 33

What was the effect of Japanese invasion on China's civil war? A) The Japanese found the internal conflict made their invasion easy. B) The Communists improved their reputation by successfully opposing the Japanese. C) The Nationalists gained in power. D) The country descended into anarchy, split by a dozen factions.

B

Which battle was considered to be the turning point of the war in the Pacific? A) Iwo Jima B) Midway C) Coral Sea D) Okinawa

B

Which battle's remains are visible from outer space even today? A) Stalingrad B) Kursk C) Midway D) El Alamein

B

Which of these had Japan erroneously assumed when creating its Asian empire? A) Britain and France would not support an attack on Japan. B) The United States would never confront Japan in force. C) British would attempt to balance Japanese and Russian imperialism. D) China would not defend itself against a Japanese invasion.

B

The United Nations differed from the League of Nations in what way? A) Germany was a founding member. B) Itsoon expanded to include most of the losers of the war. C) The Soviet Union was not a member. D) The United States refused to join.

B

The goal of the Anschluss was to A) punish Austria for its part in World War I. B) unific German peoples. C) isolate Italy. D) give Germans lebensraum in lands of inferior Slavs.

B

What did Benito Mussolini and Hungary's Nicholas Horthy have in common? A) Both survived the war as rulers of their countries. B) Both protected their countries' Jews from Nazi extermination. C) Both assisted Hitler's campaign against Europe's Jews. D) Both were Fascist dictators.

B

What limited the effectiveness of League of Nations' sanctions against Italy? A) The League never had any intention of forcing the sanctions. B) The sanctions were not enforceable against non-members. C) The sanctions were ignored by the League's members. D) Britain and France overruled the sanctions.

B

What made the fall of France so shocking? A) France had signed a non-aggression pact with Germany. B) The French army had been considered a bastion of democracy against fascist aggression. C) England made no effort to support France militarily. D) France had not been invaded for four hundred years.

B

What was Eichmann's role in the planning of the Final Solution? A) He was an expert on chemical and biological weapons. B) He was an expert in train scheduling. C) He was an expert in cremation. D) He was a munitions expert.

B

The relationship between Hitler and Mussolini improved because, after Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia, Italy needed, and German could provide A) munitions. B) oil. C) coal. D) food.

A

Which country safely evacuated its Jewish population to Sweden? A) Denmark B) Belgium C) Switzerland D) Poland

A

Which of these remained neutral in World War II? A) Spain B) Bulgaria C) Austria D) Vichy France

A

Rommel's defeat in Africa was largely due to A) Hitler's failure to send reinforcements requested by Rommel. B) superior British and American resources. C) lack of military planning. D) incompetent strategy.

B

The Rape of Nanjing caused global condemnation against A) China. B) Japan. C) Germany. D) France.

B

Who was the leader of Hitler's forces in Africa? A) Hermann Göring B) Joseph Goebbels C) Erwin Rommel D) Bernard Montgomery

C

Hitler invade Poland because he believed that A) England and France, having sold out on Czechoslovakia, would not fight to defend Poland. B) the Soviet Union was too weak to interfere. C) the League of Nations would support his actions. D) the Poles themselves wanted Anschluss with Germany.

A

In arguing for self-determination in the Sudetenland, Hitler was appealing to A) nationalist sentiment. B) Italian solidarity. C) the United Nations. D) anti-Semitism.

A

Japan's primary goal in invading Manchuria was the region's A) rich natural resources. B) proximity to Russia. C) modern port facilities. D) historical ties to Japan.

A

Japan's strategy failed at Midway because A) Nimitz had intercepted Japanese intelligence. B) several American battleships were on routine training missions. C) assistance from the Luftwaffe never arrived. D) they ran out of supplies

A

Rommel was sent by Hitler to Africa A) because of the failure of the Italians. B) to search for oil. C) because there were so many German colonies in Africa. D) because the British were trying to unify the Africans to fight.

A

The Anschluss was Germany's A) union with Austria. B) alliance with Italy. C) union with Japan. D) invasion of Poland.

A

The Soviet troops famously fought house-by-house at the battle of A) Stalingrad. B) Kursk. C) Leningrad. D) Moscow.

A

At which conference did the Allies agree to divide postwar Germany? A) Tehran B) Yalta C) Potsdam D) Munich

B

Harry Truman refused to accept Japan's conditional surrender because A) he distrusted the gesture. B) the atomic bomb made invasion of Japan unnecessary. C) he was misinformed of the terms of the surrender. D) he wanted Japan to be humiliated first.

B

Iwo Jima and Okinawa were significant American victories in the East Asian theater because A) both islands had huge populations B) of their proximity to mainland Japan C) both islands had abundant natural resources D) the Japanese surrendered each island without a fight

B

Kursk, like Midway, marked which of these? A) the inferiority of Axis weaponry B) the limits of Axis expansion C) the weaknesses of Allied military leaders D) the problems of supplies faced by the Allies

B

Midway Island was important to the United States in 1942 because A) it was the last United States possession in the Pacific. B) it was the only island between Japanese forces and Hawaii. C) it was America's last fueling station in the Pacific. D) President Roosevelt was visiting the island.

B

On the eve of WWII, which European country was plagued by civil war? A) France B) Spain C) Italy D) Denmark

B

Prior to the dropping of nuclear weapons, Japan A) refused to surrender. B) wanted to surrender if they could keep their emperor. C) was planning another bombing of the United States. D) had broken away from the Axis powers.

B

Resistance to the Nazis in Europe can be said to have been A) limited to small regions in France. B) widespread but doing little to weaken Nazi control. C) limited to Eastern Europe. D) rare, but highly successful in those cases.

B

Who was the president of the United States when Pearl Harbor was bombed? A) Woodrow Wilson B) Herbert Hoover C) Harry Truman D) Franklin Roosevelt

D

Chamberlain boasted of finally achieving "peace in our time" after A) the signing of the Versailles Treaty. B) the Paris peace conference. C) the Munich Conference. D) the D-Day invasion.

C

Douglas MacArthur was widely criticized for his A) poor military strategy. B) refusal to protect the Philippines. C) arrogance. D) refusal to share command with Nimitz.

C

Hitler diverted his attention from the drive for Moscow, instead turning his forces southeast, because A) he did not believe that Moscow could be taken. B) the capital had been moved to Stalingrad. C) he wanted to reach the oil in the Caucasus. D) of the weather.

C

Hitler relied on bombing in the Battle of Britain because A) most of British industry was close to continental Europe. B) Britain had no way of detecting approaching aircraft. C) the Royal Navy blocked an assault by sea. D) Britain had virtually no air force.

C

In the 1930s it became clear to everyone that the League of Nations A) would enforce international law. B) was corrupt. C) had no power. D) was the main threat to world peace

C

The British won the battle of Britain largely due to A) Germany's lack of fuel. B) U.S. intervention. C) the British invention of radar. D) Hitler turning his attention to an invasion of Greece.

C

The Germans were surprised by D-day because A) they did not expect an amphibious assault. B) they believed that the United States would defeat Japan before arriving in Europe. C) they believed the attack would come at Calais. D) they expected a bombing raid instead.

C

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was A) poorly planned and executed. B) a desperate gamble that paid off for Japan. C) a tactical success but a strategic failure. D) a strongly opposed by Hitler.

C

The Japanese, during World War II, claimed to be acting to A) spread democracy. B) combat Communism. C) rid Asia of Western imperialists. D) bring peace to Asia.

C

The Sudetenland was the westernmost area of A) Poland. B) Germany. C) Czechoslovakia. D) France.

C

The policy of appeasement in the 1930s was influenced most heavily by A) the Cold War. B) animosity towards Communism. C) the experience of World War I. D) support for military options.

C

What North African town changed hands five times during WW II? A) Cairo. B) Tunis. C) Benghazi. D) Casablanca.

C

What was the approximate death toll from the Second World War? A) 10 million B) 20 million C) 60 million D) 120 million

C

When the Nazis initially invaded the Soviet Union A) the Soviets were well prepared. B) Stalin launched a counter-attack. C) they were welcomed by many as liberators. D) Hitler focused his attack on a single objective, Moscow.

C

Which of the following was not developed during WW II? A) antibiotics B) jet aircraft C) the Internet D) ballistic missiles.

C

Which of these worked with the D-day invasion to defeat Hitler? A) the Swedish bombing assault from the north B) the defection of masses of German soldiers C) the Soviet assault from the east D) the withdrawal of Italy from the war just before the invasion

C

Who led the Allies to victory in Africa? A) Erwin Rommel B) George Patton C) Bernard Montgomery D) Dwight Eisenhower

C

Compared to the Great War, WW II's impact on civilians was A) about the same. B) much less destructive. C) exaggerated by both sides for political advantage. D) far more deadly and destructive.

D

During WW II, the destruction of Hamburg, Dresden and Tokyo showed the destructive power of A) ground warfare B) chemical weapons C) the atomic bomb D) aerial bombing

D

In 1935, Mussolini announced that he was creating a "New Roman Empire" after his invasion of A) Morocco. B) Greece. C) Yugoslavia. D) Ethiopia.

D

The assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss led to A) the Rome-Berlin Axis. B) the formation of the Axis powers. C) Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland. D) tension between Hitler and Mussolini.

D

The leader of the Free French during WW II was A) Ferdinand Foch. B) Marshal Pétain. C) Edouard Deladier. D) Charles de Gaulle.

D

Which countries supported Franco in the Spanish Civil War? A) Britain and France B) Portugal and Holland C) Belgium and Portugal D) Germany and Italy

D

Which of these switched sides from the First to the Second World War? A) Germany B) Austria C) China D) Japan

D

Which of these was the question raised by the Spanish Civil War? A) Was Spain about to become a Communist nation? B) Was Russia willing to aid other nations that might adopt Communism? C) Was Germany was willing to defy international opinion? D) Would the Western democracies oppose dictators?

D

Who replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister of Britain in early 1940? A) Clement Attlee B) Robert Peel C) Benjamin Disraeli D) Winston Churchill

D